Lawyer is shot and killed at deposition
A Mississippi lawyer was shot and killed on Friday at a deposition at his office in Clarksdale.
The lawyer, Ellis Pittman, died before he could be airlifted to Memphis for treatment, report WREG (in stories here and here), KVTV5, LocalMemphis.com and the Associated Press, which quotes a story in the Clarksdale Press Register (sub. req.).
The suspect is Recardo Frazier, a local contractor who was a defendant in a suit by Pittman over work done at Pittman’s home. Frazier was represented by lawyer Bill Luckett, who is mayor of Clarksville. Pittman was also the prosecuting attorney for Coahoma County.
Luckett told the Clarksdale Press Register that he was leaving Pittman’s office when he heard the shots. “Nobody had any iota of a clue that anything like this would happen,” Luckett said. “It was totally a shocker.”
